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Orville Schell, Yiyun Li transcend pandemics and revolutions through great literature at 7th annual Bay Area Book Festival
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Last Updated May 9, 2021
On the second evening of the 7th annual Bay Area Book Festival, a crowd of virtual participants gathered in a Zoom meeting to the sound of Chen Leiji playing a Bach cello suite on the qin a seven-string Chinese musical instrument.
The recording was played to introduce the speakers in a talk titled: “When Everything Falls Apart, How Does the Heart Survive? Orville Schell and Yiyun Li on China, Tolstoy, and the Power of Art, with Adam Hochschild.”
Lisa Kiefer speaks with
Orville Schell, former professor and dean of the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, about his debut novel, My Old Home. After decades of writing books and articles on China policy, his first novel follows exiles caught between American and Chinese politics from Mao s Revolution in 1949 to the Tiananmen Square Massacre in 1989, examining the divide that arose under the Chinese Communist Party between the imperatives of the individual and the state, especially as experienced by artists and musicians. Currently the Arthur Ross director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations at Asia Society in New York, Schell is working on a project centering around the U.S. and China and the critical role they play in resolving the climate change issue.